Music in the horror film listening to fear edited by Neil Lerner. - New York Routledge 2010. - xi, 240 p. ill., music 23 cm. - Routledge music and screen media series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Carnival of souls and the organs of horror / Julie Brown -- Mischief afoot : supernatural horror-comedies and the Diabolus in musica / Janet K. Halfyard -- The monster and the music box : children and the soundtrack of horror / Stan Link -- The strange case of Rouben Mamoulian's sound stew : the uncanny soundtrack in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) / Neil Lerner -- Voices that lie within : the heard and unheard in Psycho / Ross J. Fenimore -- Pop goes the horror score : left alone in The last house on the left / Joe Tompkins -- Ramblin' men and piano men : crises of music and masculinity in The exorcist / Claire Sisco King -- Rehearing The shining : musical undercurrents in the Overlook Hotel / David J. Code -- Hearing deep seated fears : John Carpenter's The fog (1980) / K.J. Donnelly -- Music and the adult ideal in A nightmare on Elm Street / James Buhler -- The beauty of horror : Kilar, Coppola, and Dracula / James Deaville -- Quieting the ghosts in The sixth sense and The others / Lloyd Whitesell.

9780415992039 (pbk.) 0415992036 (pbk.)

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Motion pictures and music.
Horror films--History and criticism.

ML2075 / .M879 2010

781.542 / M9872